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Lillian's Story Reading Group Notes N O T E S F O R FE?DAHA R E A D I N G LILIANS STORY by Kate Grenville G Contents R About Kate Grenville ............................................................. 2 O On writing Lilians Story ........................................................ 3 U Reviews............................................................................. 5 P Some suggested points for discussion ....................................... 9 S Further reading ................................................................. 11 About Kate Grenville I WAS BORN IN SYDNEY, Australia, in 1950. I did a BA honours degree at Sydney University, majoring in English Literature, and then went to work in the film industry, mostly editing documentaries. I thought I wanted to write, but kept being discouraged by comparing myself with the great writers Id studied. In the late 1970s I went to the UK on a working holiday for six months, and ended up being away for seven years. I started to write while I was living in London and Paris, supporting myself by various film-editing, writing, and secretarial jobs. Something about living as a foreigner in other countries gave me the freedom to try my long-suppressed dream of writing. While I was in Paris I met American writers who introduced me for the first time to contem- porary American fiction, and in 1980 I went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to do a Masters degree in Creative Writing. While I was there I put together a collection of short stories (later to become Bearded Ladies), and wrote a novel which later became Dreamhouse. As a Teaching Assistant at the university I also taught Composition and Creative Writing to undergraduates. In 1983 I returned to Australia with an unfinished novel which became Lilians Story. Bearded Ladies was published in 1984 and the next year Lilians Story won The Australian/Vogel award for an unpublished book. Dreamhouse was published the following year. Joan Makes History was com- missioned by the Australian Government as part of its Bicentennial activities and was published in 1988. As an extension of the teaching I was doing, I published The Writing Book in 1990, and collaborated with Sue Woolfe on Making Stories in 1993. A companion novel to Lilians Story, about her father, had been brewing slowly for ten years and was published as Dark Places (Albions Story in the USA) in 1995. I teach, write reviews and do other paid work, but my writing has been made possible in great part because of the support of the Australian Government through its arts funding body, the Australia Council. I am extremely grateful for this support. I live in Sydney with my husband and young son and daughter, and am engaged in the long but satisfying process of learning to play the cello. Reading Group Notes Lilians Story On writing Lilians StoryKate Grenville Research Lilians Story is very loosely based on a famous Sydney eccentric, Bea Miles. She was an old woman when I was a university student and I often saw her (from the safe distance of a bus) sprawled on the church steps at Railway Square in army greatcoat, tennis visor, and split sandshoes. Like everyone growing up in Sydney at that time, I knew a few things about her; that she was from a respectable middle-class family and had gone to one of Sydneys top schools; that she had briefly gone to university but had dropped out under mysterious circumstances; and that she made money by offering recitations from Shakespeare (sixpence for a sonnet, a shilling for a scene from a play). There were enough contradictions in this story to be intriguing. A nicely-brought-up univer- sity student with a love of Shakespeare had somehow turned into a huge, loud, uninhibited eccen- tric, living on the streets, with no fear of what people thought, no sense of what she should be. What story could make sense of that? Bea Miles herself was only a starting point for the book. I wasnt terribly interested in finding out the exact details of her life. The few facts I knew about her could form the basis for a story that was really about bigger issues, such as: ® What was it like to be a clever woman born at a time when women were not even supposed to go to high school, much less university? What effect would that limitation have on you? ® What does it mean to refuse the life-story that has been prepared for you, and choose another of your own making? Bea Miles should have grown up to be a sedate wife and mother, and had forcefully re-written a new life-story for herself, of her own choosing. ® Was there significance to her enormous size (Id seen photos of her as a young girl, slim and lovely)? ® Once you step outside the social norms, and can re-create your own values, your own choices from day to day, what structure or aim gives you purpose? In rejecting money- making, motherhood, politeness, organised religion, etcetera, what might you put in their place to give your life meaning or value? Reading Group Notes Lilians Story ! I didnt do any research about Bea Miles, because I felt I didnt want to know too much about herI only needed her story as a catalyst. I was afraid of not being able to explore the issues I wanted to, if I knew too much about herI needed the freedom to invent a character who suited my purposes. The book took about two years to write, part-time, around a part-time job. It wasnt quite finished when I submitted it for The Australian/Vogel prizeI was 34, and it was the last year Id be eligible. While the judges were deliberating, I finished the book. When I learned Id won, I could hardly believe it. Id written several other unpublished novels and published a collection of short stories before, but this was the first time Id written a book just for mewithout any thought of pleasing a readership. Lilians Story has been filmed, starring Ruth Cracknell as Lilian and Barry Otto as her father. How it was written With earlier books, Id made plans in advance, and had found that although a plan is reassur- ing it can also stifle real creativity. With this book I decided to write in a much more unstructured way and see what happened. I used the few facts I knew about Bea Miles like navigation markerspeaks of known eventsand Id invent scenarios that would link these markers and make a journey. I didnt start at the beginningeach day Id plunge into the story at whatever point was interesting to me on that day. I used a lot of triggersphotos of Sydney at the period of Bea Miles, my personal knowledge of places in Sydney shed frequented, stories Id heard about her. I also found I could incorporate some details from my own life and give them to herfor example the schoolyard has a lot in common with my own primary school. I discovered the great freedom of writing about things I knew about, like that schoolyard, without having to write about myself. As I wrote, I found that, in order to make sense of what I knew about this character, an event of some kind of abuse was coming out as part of the story. Its not quite spelled out, but there is a power struggle between Lilian and her father which culminates in some traumatic event. I hadnt planned that, but it made sense of everything, and brought into the open a lot of issues about the power relationships between men and women. When I had about a hundred pages of these often quite short fragments, I put them in rough chronological order and found to my surprise that one led to the next quite naturally. That gave me a rough outlinethen I could fill in the gaps, to make a narrative. Reading Group Notes Lilians Story " I tried in one draft to join the short fragments up into conventional longer chapters, but somehow it lost its energy, so instead I gave each fragment a title. I used the model of a film, which is a series of scenes, often with big leaps of time or place in between. Thanks to film, writers no longer have to tediously describe every transition, and get their characters from A to B. They can just cut from one event to the next. Reviews Sydney Morning HeraldElizabeth Jolley Lils Story: facts, fat, frailness Lilians Story is Kate Grenvilles first novel and with it she won the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1984. Modern writers often develop Tolstoys text that all happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Among other things, Lilians Story is an account of an unhappy family. This very moving and sometimes funny novel is written in a series of fragments, each with its own heading. The surprises in the story are not the events in themselves, for the horrors of family life and adolescence are not new. The surprises and flourishes are in the evocative and poetic writing of the episodes, every one of which reveals some detail of human frailness, and many include the daily crucifixions in the playground, at the family meal table, at birthday and tennis parties and during those unsparing moments of forced or cruel choice between individuals. The dialogue is spare, carefully selected as if distilled. The characters leap from the essence of their own words sprinkled as they are throughout the narrative. The unusual use of italics adds power to these snatches of speech. He was such a skinny boy, and inept.
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